20 December 2014. The 2014 annual report on public diplomacy and international broadcasting will be the subject of the next First Monday lunch forum on 5 January 2015 at American Foreign Service Association headquarters in Washington, D.C. Katherine Brown, executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy that issued the report, will discuss the report’s findings.

The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy is authorized by Congress to oversee […]

14 December 2014. U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) issued its annual report for 2014 on 11 December, the first such report since its reauthorization last year. The group’s document aims to provide a benchmark for more analytical reports in the future.

According to the transmittal letter, the report …

itemizes major public diplomacy and international broadcasting activities conducted by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board […]

Reading Room of the Allies. Interior. Partial View. Note the American flags and War poster. Serious looking gentleman in shirt sleeves is the Manager. (U.S. Department of State)

7 December 2014. The State Department’s Office of the Historian released this week the first volume in its series of public diplomacy history, dealing with U.S. information efforts in World War I. From the preface …